Joel Osteen

Jakes doesn't have just a couple dozen people.

He has thousands and has impacted the world.

What happened?

He got called into the house.

People tried to hold him back.

His own thoughts told him, you'll never get out of this limited environment.

But he understood this principle.

If you'll be faithful where you are, then when it's your time to be called, when it's your time to be promoted, to be healed, to be vindicated, all the forces of darkness cannot hold you back.

And like him, many of you have been faithful.

You've done the right thing when it was hard.

You haven't listened to the negative voices trying to discourage you, but nothing has happened.

You're still in the shepherd's fields.

Does it look like you'll ever get the break you need, ever get well, ever meet the right person?

You may feel overlooked, but God is saying, I haven't forgotten about you.

Samuel is on the way.

You're about to be called into the house.

I'm about to do what medicine can't do.

I'm about to restore what the enemy's trying to steal.

I'm about to take you where you could not go on your own.

Now do your part, keep being excellent where you are.